Influence of fire regimes on lodgepole pine stand age and density across the Yellowstone National Park (USA) landscape

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1281-1296

  Schoennagel, Tania ^a,c   Turner, Monica G ^a   Kashian, Daniel M ^a   Fall, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Landscape modeling; Pinus contorta var. latifolia; Postfire regeneration; Stand density; Succession; Yellowstone National Park

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STAND STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 33745879226     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-006-0028-5     Document Type: Article

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